This description is true. So rebuke them sharply so that they will be sound in the faith and free from doctrinal error,

Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, masters of themselves, sound in faith, in love, and in stedfastness.

Tell the older women also to be reverent in their demeanour and not to be slanderers or slaves to drink;

Tell the young men also to be masters of themselves at all points;

Urge bond-servants to be subject to their own masters in everything, to be pleasing and not talk back,

Tell them these things. Encourage and rebuke with full authority. Let no one disregard or despise you [conduct yourself and your teaching so as to command respect].